// common config across all tars
        project.getTasks().withType(SymbolicLinkPreservingTar.class).configureEach(t -> {
            t.getArchiveExtension().set("tar.gz");
            t.setCompression(Compression.GZIP);
        });
    }

    private void registerEmptyDirectoryTasks(Project project) {
        // CopySpec does not make it easy to create an empty directory so we

 */
public class SymbolicLinkPreservingTar extends Tar {

    @Override
    protected CopyAction createCopyAction() {
        final ArchiveOutputStreamFactory compressor;
        switch (getCompression()) {
            case BZIP2:
                compressor = Bzip2Archiver.getCompressor();
                break;
            case GZIP:
                compressor = GzipArchiver.getCompressor();
                break;